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> And the walkman is arguably one of the classic cases of “build it, and they will come”, where a product was well ahead of what consumers were already calling
by hhs 6y ago
> And the walkman is arguably one of the classic cases of “build it, and they will come”, where a product was well ahead of what consumers were already calling for.
Indeed, wonder if they used any parts of UX design/research. Was that even such a thing then?
- tbrock 6y agoNo, that’s stuff we invented recently. Before it was just jam it in a box and see if it works.
- itisit 6y agoHeh
- numpad0 6y agoThey had round green buttons labeled “●POWER” since those days I think. Not all Sony devices has green power buttons but if there’s a button labeled in green it powers up by pressing that.
- Finnucane 6y agoIt was called industrial design in those days.
- p1mrx 6y agohttps://www.jamesbutters.com/ https://www.jamesbutters.com/ has various examples of transistor radio designs, which could be considered Walkman predecessors.
- mc32 6y agoHa! The Sony "Pacemaker". And to think some of those were actually built stateside... Now even Japan mfgs a lot of their products overseas.
- noizejoy 6y agoAnd if you’re old enough, you may have experienced a SW transistor radio With a single mono earpiece giving you that feeling of being real time personally connected to the world far, far away from home. A precursor to the feeling of connecting to a far away BBS (bulletin board systems) and eventually the Internet.